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Since Sunday's in Padova are really boring, we developed the habit of driving around northern Italy. We saw a lot of nice cities already. Last week we went to see Bologna, the oldest university. well we weren't able to look at it, because it is closed on sundays. But the red city was also nice to look at. It is called the red city because the stones are actually red marmor, and also because ...
Bologna
... too. We started walking Betty back to the train station and grabbed tortellini for dinner (it was alright but sadly not as good as described by our hotel owners). Betty almost missed her train because we didn't understand that they use one track but different sides of the train station to load more people on more trains - kind of super efficient but hard to navigate. Sara and I walked home and her poor feet have blisters :( but it was a great day and I can't wait for Venice ...
Amazing Race to Bologna
... in their floor. We set out with our friends to explore a bit more walking under these amazing porticos and tried to make sense of towers that were leaning so bad you forgot which angles were perfectly vertical. Justin took us to his favorite butcher shop where we got some local mortadella. We sat on the steps looking across the an open piazza and enjoyed this local treat and caught up with our friends. The next stop was a an introduction into apertivo! ...
Typically Italian
For anyone who has travelled significant distances over a long period of time you will understand what I mean when I say that travelling often sucks. Getting from A to B in a foreign country on foreign transport networks is never entirely simple and it is often made far less enjoyable by delays and tiresome changes. This is what faced us today as Caitlin, Briar and I said goodbye to our travel companions of the last few days and headed off in the direction of ...
Luca
... over to me when I finish but they don't look Italian. One of them introduces himself as Niko - he and his friends (Johan and Friedrich) are Danish guys on a pre-university Eurotrip who don't want to pay outrageous hotel prices for another night in Bologna and ask me if I know anywhere to sleep tonight.
I tell them about the nearby park where I plan to crash if I can't find Luca, then think to tell them about Couchsuring. Not that it'll be much use this time of ...
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